DOI Heft:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The etchings of James McBey
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0056
The Etchings of James McBey
not inevitably associate with immortal masters, controlling it, is always a poetic temperament
Such for instance, as the enchanting sunny little influenced by the spirit of the scene, and it is,
Benachie, or the two lovely plates of Fintray, or therefore, his own mood reflected in the passing
Logie Buchan Ferry, or Catterline, full of the sense expression of the scene that he gives us. The hills,
of the sea, or the pretty Foveran Burn, or Old because they oppress him, come seldom, if ever,
Castile, with its mediaeval atmosphere, or the rainy into his prints ; but the sunny plains inspire him
View in Wales, these two last being among our happily. The sea, almost, so to speak, his native
illustrations. element, is a strong and generally sad influence,
Omval and Amsterdam from Runsdorp, shown and in the very original ijS8, the second state of
here, are thoroughly representative of that delightful which, somewhat altered in composition from the
group of Dutch landscapes through which mainly first, is reproduced here, we have a remarkably
the connoisseurs recognised the young etcher's true suggestive impression of the bleak, rocky, un-
artistic inheritance from the great master, a group friendliness of the Aberdeen coast. And here the
that includes those engaging plates Runsdorp, artist's imaginative vision is vividly expressed, for
Haarlem, Zaandijk and Enkhuisen. Dry-point is on these very rocks of Collieston, close to Mr.
the medium Mr. McBey has used with appealing McBey's birthplace, a Spanish Armada ship was
pictorial suggestiveness in the Sandwich series, of wrecked 325 years ago. This was the last etching Mr.
which An April Day in Kent, given here, is a McBey did before starting for Morocco, a journey
characteristic example, while another which I greatly which we may hope will result in many charac-
admire among the six plates of the series is The teristic etchings, and not a few pictures in oil and
Skylark, a charming expression of the spirit of a water-colours, mediums through which this in-
joyous Spring day over spacious English landscape, teresting artist has yet to reveal himself to the
Behind Mr. McBey's pictorial vision, inspiring and art-loving public. M. C. S.
'OMVAL" ORIGINAL ETCHING BY JAMES MCBEY
34
not inevitably associate with immortal masters, controlling it, is always a poetic temperament
Such for instance, as the enchanting sunny little influenced by the spirit of the scene, and it is,
Benachie, or the two lovely plates of Fintray, or therefore, his own mood reflected in the passing
Logie Buchan Ferry, or Catterline, full of the sense expression of the scene that he gives us. The hills,
of the sea, or the pretty Foveran Burn, or Old because they oppress him, come seldom, if ever,
Castile, with its mediaeval atmosphere, or the rainy into his prints ; but the sunny plains inspire him
View in Wales, these two last being among our happily. The sea, almost, so to speak, his native
illustrations. element, is a strong and generally sad influence,
Omval and Amsterdam from Runsdorp, shown and in the very original ijS8, the second state of
here, are thoroughly representative of that delightful which, somewhat altered in composition from the
group of Dutch landscapes through which mainly first, is reproduced here, we have a remarkably
the connoisseurs recognised the young etcher's true suggestive impression of the bleak, rocky, un-
artistic inheritance from the great master, a group friendliness of the Aberdeen coast. And here the
that includes those engaging plates Runsdorp, artist's imaginative vision is vividly expressed, for
Haarlem, Zaandijk and Enkhuisen. Dry-point is on these very rocks of Collieston, close to Mr.
the medium Mr. McBey has used with appealing McBey's birthplace, a Spanish Armada ship was
pictorial suggestiveness in the Sandwich series, of wrecked 325 years ago. This was the last etching Mr.
which An April Day in Kent, given here, is a McBey did before starting for Morocco, a journey
characteristic example, while another which I greatly which we may hope will result in many charac-
admire among the six plates of the series is The teristic etchings, and not a few pictures in oil and
Skylark, a charming expression of the spirit of a water-colours, mediums through which this in-
joyous Spring day over spacious English landscape, teresting artist has yet to reveal himself to the
Behind Mr. McBey's pictorial vision, inspiring and art-loving public. M. C. S.
'OMVAL" ORIGINAL ETCHING BY JAMES MCBEY
34